How do I specify people correctly in the auto-op, protect and ignore list?
When you look in the Address Book in mIRC, in the Control section, you will find the Auto-op, Protect and Ignore address lists with which you can easily auto-op and protect your friends on your IRC channel, or ignore an annoying person. This set of 3 lists provides you with the most basic channel maintnance possible in mIRC. No scripting is needed to use these functions. If you need better, smarter, but also more difficult to understand functions or behaviour, you should check out mIRC’s ‘remote’ capabilities explained in section 7 of this FAQ. For starters these functions will do fine I think. For mIRC to be able to op, protect or ignore a person on IRC it matches the nickname or address of that person with the nicknames and addresses you have in the op, protect and ignore lists. In the address definitions you can use wildcards. The full address format of a person on IRC is Nick!Account@machine. Lets assume that Bill responds to a “/whois bill” with: Bill is gates@pentium.company.com
